Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Escondido, CA ranks #411 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 345 patents from 169 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Escondido, CA include Qualcomm, Oracle, Callaway Golf. That works out to 2.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 169 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Stephen William Edge Qualcomm 22
2 Kenny C. Gross Oracle 13
2 Petra Petrich Callaway Golf 13
#4 Lalan Jee Mishra Qualcomm 11
#5 Maulik Vaidya Charter Communications Operating 8
#6 Kevin Duane Bunker Recurium Ip Holdings 7
#6 Joe Mullis Ballogy 7
#6 Rebecca Hawkins Wahl In2Bones Usa 7
#6 Renee O'Connell Altman Specialty Plants 7
#10 Ben Wynne Intrepid Automation 6
#10 Bret H. Wahl Taylor Made Golf Company 6
#10 Alexander L. Warren Seescan 6
#13 Brad M. Kellerman Avenu Medical 5
#13 John R. Sanford Ubiquiti Networks 5
#13 Nicholas J. Manesis AbbVie 5
#16 David Fernandez Netclearance Systems 4
#16 Dharmpal S. Dodd Bristol-Myers Squibb 4
#16 Patrick John Castagna Dexcom 4
#19 Jerald G. Ott, III Semtech 3
#19 Paul A. Sprengeler Effector Therapeutics 3
#19 Christopher R. Taylor Emerson Electric 3
#19 David Morelock Custom Dynamics 3
#19 Tonni Sandager Larsen Sony 3
#19 James Stephen Amidei Dexcom 3
#19 Lester B. Johnson Mitchell Repair Information Company 3
#19 Andrew Enslow 3D Systems 3
#19 Christopher A. G. Nunez Callaway Golf 3
#19 Jerome K. Aarestad Sommetrics 3
#19 Paul M. Elizondo, II Meps Real-Time 3
#19 Mustafa Yusufi Carefusion 303 3
#19 Alexander Vardy University of California 3
#32 Kay Olmstead Intercept Pharmaceuticals 2
#32 Donald S. Karanewsky E.R. Squibb & Sons. 2
#32 Jeremy Rowlette Daylight Solutions 2
#32 Mikxay Sirivong Conmed 2
#32 Kanchana Sanjaya Gunesekera Karunaratne Unknown 2
#32 Alan R. Roach Bestop Baja 2
#32 Mehrdad Majlessi Gen-Probe Incorporated 2
#32 Abhijeet Paul Psemi 2
#32 Peter Barker Taylor Made Golf Company 2
#32 Joseph A. Donoghue Rilco Manufacturing Company 2
#32 David A. Neese Grady-White Boats 2
#32 Michael Oliveira Acutus Medical 2
#32 Alexander Russell Abela Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 2
#32 John Tom Stewart, IV Asml Netherlands B.V. 2
#32 Bryce W. Hobbs Cobra Golf Incorporated 2
#32 Scott Clear Persyst Development 2
#32 Richard Klein Klein Electronics 2
#32 Jacob McFayden 2
#32 John W. Hunter Quicklaunch 2

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